Word: knobbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with buttons and Zippers fixed to the pages) to a growing number of teen-age novels (Girl Trouble, etc.) that compete with...
...Germany's Rolleiflex has a cheaper, smaller model. Available by midsummer, the Rolleiflex 4x4 with Xenar 3.5 lens has all the features of the regular Rolleiflex plus easier loading, and a faster knob to replace crank winding. Price...
...prepare these people for something which is going to change the whole pattern of their lives." The company flew in a squad of public-relations men from the West Coast, sent them on a seven-week tour of hillside hamlets with names like Pee Wee, Rocky Knob, Gay Given, Frozen Camp. At each stop Kaiser's emissaries showed three movies (a cartoon, a western, a film on Kaiser Aluminum), served soft drinks and cake (bought at $2 apiece from local house wives), and patiently outlined what the company was up to. As a result, Kaiser got 2.000 job applications...
...there was one indication that his own may not be all it has been cracked up to be. Said his sister-in-law, Mrs. Edgar Eisenhower of Tacoma, Wash., at a women's club meeting: "I know the President's cooking is all bluff. He turns the knob on high, burns it to a crisp, and that...
...Lieut. Polyak worked with his wrench to open the door of the pilot's compartment, the outer knob of which had been removed (an ordinary flying precaution in Communist countries), the pilot himself threw the ship into a series of violent maneuvers, sudden power dives, steep climbing turns and skidding yawing. Inside the cabin the embattled passengers rattled about like ice cubes in a cocktail shaker, while heavy crates of cargo, torn loose from their moorings, cascaded back and forth...